Improvement in compositors  stands



F. VALLEE.

v Compositors Stands. N0.137,639, PatentedApril8,1873.

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FRANCIS VALLEE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPOSITQRS STANDS.

Specification formingpart of Letters Patent No. 137,639, dated April 8,1873; application filed February 20, 1872.

plained hereafter to need preliminary description,with the view ofproducing a more steady, permanent, and economical structure than thestands usually made for compositors.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved stand for com posit-ors; and Figs. 2 and 3 detached views,illustrating the detailed construction of different parts of the stand.

My improved stand is, with the exception of the drawers and thetype-case, made in the present instance entirely of iron, there beingfour legs, A A and B B, and the legs A and B being connected together bythe longitudinal bar D, and the legs A and B by the longitudinal bar Dand also by a frame, E, and the bars D and D are connected together bythe transverse bars Gr. These bars G are suitably formed for receivingthe type-cases H and I, and for retaining them at the proper inclina'tion, the lower edge of the case H resting against the bar D, and thelower edge of the upper case against ledges 00 formed on the saidtransverse bars. (See Fig. 3.) Each of the legs is of the T-shapedsectional form represented in Fig. 2, and may be made either of cast orrolled iron, and to the flanges a of the legs are secured the ends ofhorizontal L- shaped bars, forming runners or guides for a series ofdrawers, M, each runner being furnished with a stop for preventing thedrawers from being pushed too far inward. Single runners only may besecured to the legs 13 B at the outer end of the stand; but doublerunners, as shown in Fig. 2, may be secured to the legs A and A at theopposite ends of the stand so that another stand may be added to thelatter, and the space between the two stands rendered available fordrawers.

I claim as my invention 1. A stand, consisting of the legs .A A, B B,bars D D, G G, and K K, all constructed and arranged substantially asdescribed.

2. The legs composed of T-shaped iron, in combination with runners K ofL-shaped iron.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

F. VALLEE.

\Vitnesses WILLIAM A. STEEL, HARRY SMITH.

